You should study some economics (as well as english.... their -> they're, give in -> given). Sure, people want to make money, but in a competitive situation, the price is not determined by how much money they can make, but what the competitors are selling it or. Commodity products tend to have tiny margins.
On the other hand, software has almost zero marginal cost (amount it costs to make one more item), and in the case of Windows, which is effectively a monopoly because of the network effect, the situation is more extreme.
I don't like defending Microsoft, but in this case....that's a reason to switch platforms, because you don't like an application that you don't have to use?
Is it the ads that bother you? Slashdot is adware, you know.
Personally, I'm happy to see Microsoft finding separate revenue streams for their apps, rather than just bundling them with Windows and claiming they are free. That would have been typical Microsoft....kill Google Docs by bundling something with the OS and covering its cost with the price of the OS.
it's not like there were any articles on the web he could have read about the iphone, so that he might have learned the deal with the batteries.
Most likely by the time batteries start dying, he'll be able to take it into a local business and they'll replace the battery while you wait, probably for less than apple would charge.
People don't have to participate if they don't want to.
Some people might decide that they like having a good alternative to google. The interesting thing is, if the company gets greedy (say, but putting too many ads, or charging too much to advertisers), it's likely that people will stop helping them out. That is a powerful check on them that doesn't apply to google and others.
Another thing to think about: if they go public, you can always buy their stock, and then let them use your resources....not quite so altruistic then.
Well, if it doesn't run on Windows, here in the real world, that doesn't count as cross platform. Not in any economic sense, as in "we can continue to target the 95% of users that use windows, and then get the linux and mac builds for nearly free".
I'd say whoever considers Windows irrelevant in whether something is truly cross platform is the one that is smoking something.
It seems that first the linux people need to embrace the concept of cross platform development. Most linux developers I know don't want to build their stuff to run on all platforms, so it should be no surprise that vendors don't want to bother with developing cross platform either, and will simply target the platform that reaches the most uses.
If the cross platform toolkits were the easiest way to build apps, and those apps were every bit as good as ones developed targeting a single platform, things would change.
Desktops may cost less now, but if 90% of people are buying laptops, the laptops will become just as cheap due to economies of scale.
And you can always plug laptops into monitors and keyboards. But I'd argue that the advantages of being able to then take your computer anywhere (without having to have a second computer...that is just wasteful) will tend to far outweigh any advantages of desktop machines.
I like google and all, but why is being an "integral part of the operating system" necessarily so important? Right now as much of my most sensitive data is in gmail (and therefore subject to ads) as is on my hard drive.
Why couldn't they do the same thing first. They could. Just as I could go out right now and murder my neighbor. But here in america anyway, you are innocent until you actually commit the crime, not just because you could do it.
Well if it were up to me, there *should* be a certain responsibility on the part of the tv station (as well as Google).
I don't think they should have to police the ads per se, but if they know that the ad is deceptive (such as if someone brings it to their attention), they should refuse to air it/show it, and be held accountable.
True, the main responsible party is the advertiser, but I don't think that entirely lets google or the tv station off the hook.
For my own code, I no longer manually wrap long lines, and use a text editor (TextWrangler on the mac) that does soft wrapping nicely. It will add an extra indent beyond the indent of the line above it (the line that is being wrapped). It's nice because if I want to put several files on screen side by side, it will scrunch them, while keeping them plenty readable.
Its logic could possibly be improved upon slightly, but for the most part it works great. Also, my manually wrapped code works fine in it as well.
Google seemed to have no trouble tapping into Spotlight's API to add features.
And yeah there is all that about large market share which makes quite a difference as well. Also there is the fact that Google did desktop search for windows when there really wasn't a capable solution from microsoft. It was only THEN that microsoft came in and decided to put their own in there and make it harder for google's to work.
I was wondering how many "Apple can do no wrong" posts I'd find here, and I haven't been disappointed. I was wondering how many "I have an irrational hatred of any company that is successful" posts there would be.
I mean, most all complaints about Apple (including this one) can be solved by simply not purchasing Apple products if you don't like the way they do business. Why is that so hard?
After all, Apple is in business to make money, and how can we expect them to pass on an opportuniity like that? Well, if people don't like it, it will damage their reputation and less people will buy their stuff in the future.
However, apparently their policies don't bother many people as much as they bother you, as many people continue to buy apple products.
Because they are subject to competition. If they don't do this, someone else might (or do something else, like make a really cool phone), and they will lose customers, be forced to lower their price to retain them, or whatever.
Well the test was done on mice. In mice dominant males are the ones that females are likely to mate with, so maybe they should say "matable males". For humans, it would probably translate "attractive males", or at least "males that the females in question find sexually attractive".
I think people are reading too much into the word "dominant".
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You should study some economics (as well as english.... their -> they're, give in -> given). Sure, people want to make money, but in a competitive situation, the price is not determined by how much money they can make, but what the competitors are selling it or. Commodity products tend to have tiny margins.
On the other hand, software has almost zero marginal cost (amount it costs to make one more item), and in the case of Windows, which is effectively a monopoly because of the network effect, the situation is more extreme.
might be a bit of a clue, no?
That's ok, the rest of us will just look at more, bigger, more obtrusive ads to cover for you and the rest of the freeloaders.
Really, it's ok, we don't mind.
I don't like defending Microsoft, but in this case....that's a reason to switch platforms, because you don't like an application that you don't have to use?
Is it the ads that bother you? Slashdot is adware, you know.
Personally, I'm happy to see Microsoft finding separate revenue streams for their apps, rather than just bundling them with Windows and claiming they are free. That would have been typical Microsoft....kill Google Docs by bundling something with the OS and covering its cost with the price of the OS.
Well it's usually nearby Marshall Texas that patent cases are filed in. They have very patent friendly (and expedient) courts there. http://www.overlawyered.com/2005/01/marshall_texas _patent_central.html
it's not like there were any articles on the web he could have read about the iphone, so that he might have learned the deal with the batteries.
Most likely by the time batteries start dying, he'll be able to take it into a local business and they'll replace the battery while you wait, probably for less than apple would charge.
People don't have to participate if they don't want to.
Some people might decide that they like having a good alternative to google. The interesting thing is, if the company gets greedy (say, but putting too many ads, or charging too much to advertisers), it's likely that people will stop helping them out. That is a powerful check on them that doesn't apply to google and others.
Another thing to think about: if they go public, you can always buy their stock, and then let them use your resources....not quite so altruistic then.
Oh wait, this is the first I had heard of it. Nevermind.
is for tivo to sell/rent their dvr's through the cable company. Its not like the cable company makes their own dvr's currently
Well, if it doesn't run on Windows, here in the real world, that doesn't count as cross platform. Not in any economic sense, as in "we can continue to target the 95% of users that use windows, and then get the linux and mac builds for nearly free".
I'd say whoever considers Windows irrelevant in whether something is truly cross platform is the one that is smoking something.
It seems that first the linux people need to embrace the concept of cross platform development. Most linux developers I know don't want to build their stuff to run on all platforms, so it should be no surprise that vendors don't want to bother with developing cross platform either, and will simply target the platform that reaches the most uses.
If the cross platform toolkits were the easiest way to build apps, and those apps were every bit as good as ones developed targeting a single platform, things would change.
Desktops may cost less now, but if 90% of people are buying laptops, the laptops will become just as cheap due to economies of scale.
And you can always plug laptops into monitors and keyboards. But I'd argue that the advantages of being able to then take your computer anywhere (without having to have a second computer...that is just wasteful) will tend to far outweigh any advantages of desktop machines.
I like google and all, but why is being an "integral part of the operating system" necessarily so important? Right now as much of my most sensitive data is in gmail (and therefore subject to ads) as is on my hard drive.
Have you considered not reading technology sites and just going to the mall, if all you are interested in is finished products?
How exactly does the current zune allow you to "unpirate" music?
(did you even read the article title?)
Well if it were up to me, there *should* be a certain responsibility on the part of the tv station (as well as Google).
I don't think they should have to police the ads per se, but if they know that the ad is deceptive (such as if someone brings it to their attention), they should refuse to air it/show it, and be held accountable.
True, the main responsible party is the advertiser, but I don't think that entirely lets google or the tv station off the hook.
More generally....it's not all black and white.
just feel like burning some karma to say that
For my own code, I no longer manually wrap long lines, and use a text editor (TextWrangler on the mac) that does soft wrapping nicely. It will add an extra indent beyond the indent of the line above it (the line that is being wrapped). It's nice because if I want to put several files on screen side by side, it will scrunch them, while keeping them plenty readable.
Its logic could possibly be improved upon slightly, but for the most part it works great. Also, my manually wrapped code works fine in it as well.
Google seemed to have no trouble tapping into Spotlight's API to add features.
And yeah there is all that about large market share which makes quite a difference as well. Also there is the fact that Google did desktop search for windows when there really wasn't a capable solution from microsoft. It was only THEN that microsoft came in and decided to put their own in there and make it harder for google's to work.
I mean, most all complaints about Apple (including this one) can be solved by simply not purchasing Apple products if you don't like the way they do business. Why is that so hard? After all, Apple is in business to make money, and how can we expect them to pass on an opportuniity like that? Well, if people don't like it, it will damage their reputation and less people will buy their stuff in the future.
However, apparently their policies don't bother many people as much as they bother you, as many people continue to buy apple products.
That really makes you angry, doesn't it?
Because they are subject to competition. If they don't do this, someone else might (or do something else, like make a really cool phone), and they will lose customers, be forced to lower their price to retain them, or whatever.
Well the test was done on mice. In mice dominant males are the ones that females are likely to mate with, so maybe they should say "matable males". For humans, it would probably translate "attractive males", or at least "males that the females in question find sexually attractive".
I think people are reading too much into the word "dominant".